Lease and counterpart lease for 2 lives (term certain of 31 years) dated 1858 (day and month left blank); Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to Francis Price of Gelly yr Herwen, quarryman: Land (1r) part of a farm called Pen Pont for building; Endorsed: note to the effect that the lease was not executed

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Dyffryn (Gwyn) Estate RecordsD/D Gw

Deeds of Properties In Cadoxton-Juxta-Neath ParishDD Gw/1/hub

Deeds of Properties In Cilybebyll ParishDD Gw/2/hub

Property At Rhos In The Parish CilybebyllDD Gw/3/hub

Deeds of Properties In Llandeilo Talybont ParishDD Gw/4/hub

Papers Relating To The Lease of A Tramway From Birchrock Colliery To The RailwayDD Gw/5/hub

Deeds of A Property In Pontarddulais On The Road From Carmarthen To Swansea Beside The Toll House And The RailwayDD Gw/6/hub

Deeds of Properties In Llangyfelach ParishDD Gw/7/hub

Deeds of Properties In Llangynwyd ParishDD Gw/8/hub

Deeds of Properties In Llansamlet ParishDD Gw/9/hub

Deeds of Properties In NeathDD Gw/10/hub

Deeds of Properties In Brecon Town, BreconshireDD Gw/11/hub

Deeds of Properties In Defynnog Parish, BreconshireDD Gw/12/hub

Deeds of Properties In Llanfihangel-Nant-Bran Parish, BreconshireDD Gw/13/hub

Deeds of Properties In Ystradgynlais, BreconshireDD Gw/14/hub

Lease for 60 years from the Feast of the Annunciation (25 Mar) 1824 for £150 annual rent and 15s duties dated 4 May 1825; William Gwyn of Neath, gent., to Robert Small of Camberwell, James Henry Spears of Clapham, and John Taylor of Chatham Place, London, esqs.: Lands, messuages and tenements called Tir Mawr, Cae Hopkin and Glyn Ellen, formerly in the occupation of Thomas William and Margaret David and now or late in the occupation of Thomas Harper, and a dwelling house, formerly a public house called the White Lane or White Lion with a croft behind, formerly in the occupation of Thomas Watkin Taylor, now in the occupation of Thomas Taylor, and lands called Ynis-glase-yr-Avon, cottage, field and garden called Gwar ys Coed, cottage and garden called Cae Hopkin Fach, cottage garden and field called Penwain, a total area of 230a, and a messuage, tenement and farm called Garrw Lisha, measuring 47a; Includes planD/D Gw 196

Lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £2 2s annual rent dated 1 Nov 1831; Howel Gwyn of Neath, esq., to Richard David of Clynmawr, farmer: Land at Pencae (1a) for building two housesD/D Gw 197

Lease and counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 20 years) for £1 1s annual rent dated 1 Jan 1832; Howel Gwyn of Neath, esq., to John Lewis of Ystradgynlais, farmer: Cottage with garden, part of a messuage, farm and lands called PontrhydarwD/D Gw 198

Counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 20 years) for £1 1s annual rent dated 1 Jan 1832; Howel Gwyn of Neath, esq., to Enock William of Ystradgynlais, taylor: Cottage and garden, part of messuage, farm and garden called PontrhydarwD/D Gw 199

Lease and counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 20 years) for £1 1s annual rent dated 1 Jan 1832 ; Howel Gwyn of Neath esq., to Ebenezer Lewis of Ystradgynlais, cordwainer: Cottage and garden, part of lands called YnyswenD/D Gw 200

Counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 20 years) for £1 1s annual rent dated 1 Jan 1832; Howel Gwyn of Neath esq., to David Jeffreys of Ystradgynlais, yeoman: Cottage and garden, part of a farm called PontrhydarwD/D Gw 201

Lease and counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £3 annual rent, dated 1 May 1835; Howel Gwyn of Baglan House, esq., to Richard Richard of Ystradgynlais, labourer: Land (3a) part of a tenement and farm called Ceven-brinille; Endorsed: note to the effect that the new tenant is William Pergrine, and pencil note to the effect that a new lease was granted to William Williams (no. 315 in the lease register)D/D Gw 202

Lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £1 1s annual rent dated 30 Dec 1836; Howel Gwyn of Baglan House, esq., to David Thomas of Pentre Cribbath, blacksmith: Land (1a) called Morfa Ucha with the house which is to be built thereonD/D Gw 203

Lease and counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £1 annual rent and 2 ducks by way of duty, dated 17 Apr 1838; Howel Gwyn of Baglan House esq., to Evan Watkin of Garroliesle, miner: Land (2r) part of a farm called Pontrhydarw, situated to the north of the road to Tavern y Garreg; Includes plan; Endorsed: surrender of lease, dated 10 Nov 1877; Peter Olson, with John Rees, to Howel GwynD/D Gw 204

Lease and counterpart lease for 31 years from 29 Sept 1838 dated 5 Dec 1838; Howel Gwyn of Baglan House esq., to Thomas Richard of Clyn Elen, farmer: Land (3a) part of Cefn Brinlle Ucha, a part of a farm called Cefn Pengraig LlechD/D Gw 205

Lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for 7s 6d annual rent dated 28 June 1841; Howel Gwyn of Baglan House, esq., to Thomas Lewis of Morfa Ucha, collier: Land (30p) with messuage or dwelling house at Yniswen, bounded by a plantation to the south and east, a road to the north and a brook to the west; Includes planD/D Gw 206

Counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £1 1s annual rent dated 28 Feb 1847; Howel Gwyn of Baglan House, esq., to Rees Jones of Ystradgynlais, blacksmith: Land (2r), part of Goitre Waun Goch, part of a farm called Tycoch in the Upper Division of the parish, with dwelling house and blacksmith's forge; Includes planD/D Gw 207

Counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £1 1s annual rent dated 11 Jan 1849; Howel Gwyn of Baglan House, esq., to Henry Roberts of Love Lodge, Defynnog, joiner: Land (1/2a) on the road form Swansea to Brecon called Godre Wain Goch Isha, part of a farm called Pontrhydarw, with licence to build a house thereon; Includes planD/D Gw 208

Lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £1 1s annual rent, dated 28 Dec 1849; Howel Gwyn of Baglan House, esq., to John Jones of Ynyswen, wheelwright: Land (1/2a) called Cae Maen, part of Yniswen Farm, and a house in the course of being erected; Includes planD/D Gw 209

Lease and counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £1 1s annual rent dated 28 Dec 1849; Howel Gwyn of Baglan House esq., to James Williams of Heol y Gwydde, minister of the Gospel: Land (1/2a) part of Cae Gwain Du, a part of a farm called Clyn Mawr, and the house being erected thereon; Includes planD/D Gw 210

Lease and counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £1 1s dated 5 July 1850; Howel Gwyn of Baglan House esq., to John Morgan of Pencae, labourer: Land (1/2a) part of a close of land called Nantcaerfel, part of Abercrave Farm, with licence to build a house; Includes plan; Endorsed: surrender of lease dated 29 Aug 1901D/D Gw 211

Lease and counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for 10s annual rent dated 31 Dec 1853; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to William Jones of Yniswen, tailor: Land at Yniswen (16p) on the road from Defynnog to Abercrave, with a house built thereon; Includes plan; Endorsed: Assignment of lease dated 13 Aug 1874, William Jones to John Jones of Ystradgynlais, labourer, and Assignment of lease dated 29 May 1889, John Jones to Thomas Roderick of Llech factory, YstradgynlaisD/D Gw 212

Lease and counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £2 2s annual rent, dated 4 July 1856; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to Jacob Davies of Graig Yniswen, labourer: Land (1a 20p) part of Graig Yniswen to the west of the road from Swansea to Brecon, with the dwelling house to be erected thereon; Includes plan; Endorsed: Memorandum of agreement dated 29 Dec 1857, Howel Gwyn to Jacob Davies, to change the people on whose lives the lease determinesD/D Gw 213

Lease and counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £1 5s annual rent dated 1 Oct 1856; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to John Thomas of Graig Yniswen, tiler: Land (45p) part of Graigyniswen with the house to be erected thereon, situated on the road from Brecon to Swansea; Includes plan; Endorsed: surrender of lease dated 13 June 1900D/D Gw 214

Lease and counterpart lease for 2 lives (term certain of 31 years) dated 1858 (day and month left blank); Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to Francis Price of Gelly yr Herwen, quarryman: Land (1r) part of a farm called Pen Pont for building; Endorsed: note to the effect that the lease was not executedD/D Gw 215

Lease for 3 lives (term certain of 31 years) for £1 4s annual rent dated 20 Jan 1858; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to David Watkins of Penyrheol, miner: Land (2r 18p) part of Ynyswen Wood, to the south of the Swansea to Brecon road and to the east of the Abercrave Arms, for building; Includes planD/D Gw 216

Lease and counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 50 years) for £1 annual rent dated 8 July 1858; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn esq., to Benjamin Price of Pencae, quarryman: Land (1r) beside the brook and the road from Swansea to Brecon, part of Godre Wain Faen, a field which is part of Pontrhydarw Farm, for building; Includes planD/D Gw 217

Lease for 3 lives (term certain of 60 years) for £2 annual rent dated 8 Feb 1861; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to Daniel Davies of Cefn Brinlle Genol, miner: Building land (40p) called Cefn Brinlle Genol, with cottage in the process of being built; Includes planD/D Gw 218

Lease and counterpart lease for 14 years from 25 Mar 1862 for £122 10s annual rent dated 24 May 1862; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to Charles Richardson Drury of Worcestershire, gent.: Six cottages and farmland called Abercrave Demesne measuring 337a 3r 8p, and part of a plantation measuring 30a, for grazing livestock; Includes plan with schedule of field names; Endorsed: surrender of lease dated 19 Jan 1866D/D Gw 219

Counterpart lease for 60 years from 25 Mar 1864 for £7 annual rent dated 24 Feb 1864; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to Lewis Havard of Jenny Cottage, Defynnog, miller: Water corn grist mill called Blaina with two cottages and gardens, and all weirs, mill dams, ponds, tanks, streams and water courses thereto belonging; Enclosures: Two letters about the possibility of turning the mill into houses, 1910D/D Gw 220

Counterpart lease for 3 lives (term certain of 50 years) for £3 3s annual rent, dated 1 Mar 1863; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to David Jones of Pencae, miner: Land (1/2a) called Morfa Ucha, between the River Tawe and the Swansea to Brecon road, with three cottages; Includes planD/D Gw 221

Counterpart lease for 50 years from 29 Sept 1869 for £5 annual rent dated 16 Dec 1869; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to William Williams of the Halfway House, Ystradgynlais, miner: Land (3a) part of Cefn Brinille with a cottage, not further describedD/D Gw 222

Agreement for consideration of £150 dated 14 Sept 1876; Evan Watkin of Breconshire, to John Rees of Wind Street, Swansea, wine and spirit merchant: Agreement to deposit lease of lands at Pontrhydarw dated 17 Apr 1838 as equitable security for repayment of mortgage of £150 at £40 annual interest; Enclosures: promise to pay John Rees £150, dated 16 Sept 1876, and memorandum relating to a deed of trust 1877D/D Gw 223

Counterpart lease for 14 years from 25 Mar 1877 for £15 annual rent dated 11 Apr 1877; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to John Morgan the younger of Dyfnant, miller and farmer : Mill called Dyfnant Mill, Abercrave, with all mill races, machinery, dams and pools, and a piece of land adjoining the millD/D Gw 224

Grant for £100, dated 22 Sept 1877; John Francis Harvey of 3 Lower Goat Street, Swansea, accountant, to Peter Olsen of 10 Carmarthen Road, Swansea, of no occupation: Land (2r) part of Pontrhydarw farm, conveyed by a lease dated 17 Apr 1838 (see D/D Gw 204)D/D Gw 225

Lease and counterpart lease for 21 years from 25 Mar 1879 for £20 annual rent dated 25 Apr 1879; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to Henry William Crowhurst of Swansea, brewer: Messuage called the Ancient Briton public house in the parish of Ystradgynlais Higher, lately in the occupation of Evan Watkin, with the plot of land and stable at the backD/D Gw 226

Counterpart lease for 21 years from 25 Mar 1880 for £60 annual rent dated 25 Feb 1880; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to David Morgan of Danyrogof Farm, farmer: Land (115a) called Danyrogof Farm, in the parishes of Ystradgynlais and DefynnogD/D Gw 227

Counterpart lease for 21 years from 29 Sept 1882 for £20 annual rent dated 17 Feb 1883; Howel Gwyn of Dyffryn, esq., to David Bevan of Cadoxton Place, brewer: The Ancient Briton public house, with cottage attached to it, in the occupation of Priscilla Morgan, and 6 1/2a of land numbered 163, 164, 166 and 167 on the 1st edition OS mapD/D Gw 228

Counterpart lease for 99 years from 25 Mar 1896 for £2 annual rent dated 2 Sept 1896; Ellen Elizabeth Gwyn of Dyffryn, widow, to James Davies of Abercrave, colliery proprietor: Land (41p) part of Tymawr farm, with licence to build houses on it; Endorsed: Lease for the residue of the above term for £1 annual rent dated 6 June 1902; Joseph Edward Moore Gwyn to James Davies; land (79p) adjoining the above piece of land, part of Tymawr Farm, and Lease for the residue of the above term for £1 annual rent dated 20 Apr 1911; Joseph Edward Moore Gwyn to Thomas James Davies; land (2r 34p) adjoining the above pieces of land; Includes plans of all three pieces of landD/D Gw 229

Surrender of lease dated 13 May 1899; Henry Farnham Burke of 32 Portland Place, Middx., esq., to Ellen Elizabeth Gwyn of Dyffryn, widow: Land (1a 3r 33p) with the Polarite Works and buildings erected thereon, beside the Neath and Brecon Railway, demised by a lease dated 8 May 1888, Ellen Elizabeth Gwyn with Herbert Lloyd and James Inskip, to the International Water and Sewage Purification Company Ltd.; Includes planD/D Gw 230

Notes as to the state of repair of cottages on the Dyffryn estate at Abercrave. 1904D/D Gw 231

Notes relating to Dyfnant Farm House and cottages. 1908D/D Gw 232

Letter relating to a lease of a building site dated 19 Oct 1914 and a proposal to assign lease. 1918D/D Gw 233

Deeds of Properties In Llanddeusant Parish, CarmarthenshireDD Gw/15/hub

Deeds of Properties In Llangadog, CarmarthenshireDD Gw/16/hub

Deeds of Properties In DevonDD Gw/17/hub

Deeds of Properties In Several ParishesDD Gw/18/hub

Wills, Probate And Related DeedsDD Gw/19/hub

Marriage SettlementsDD Gw/20/hub

Deeds Relating To BankruptcyDD Gw/21/hub

Transfer of SharesDD Gw/22/hub

Appointment of SurveyorsDD Gw/23/hub

Deeds of Churches And Schools And Related CorrespondenceDD Gw/24/hub

PassportDD Gw/25/hub

Deeds of Minerals In GlamorganDD Gw/26/hub

Minerals Leased To The Western Merthyr And Graigola Merthyr CompaniesDD Gw/27/hub

Minerals And A Railway In Llangynwyd And Bettws ParishesDD Gw/28/hub

Papers Relating To Land And Minerals Leased To The South Wales Primrose Coal Company LtdDD Gw/29/hub

Leases of Minerals In BreconshireDD Gw/30/hub

Sales ParticularsDD Gw/31/hub

Notices of SalesDD Gw/32/hub

InventoriesDD Gw/33/hub

Financial FilesDD Gw/34/hub

Correspondence Relating To Leases And PropertiesDD Gw/35/hub

Files Relating To The Assessment of Estate Duty After The Death of Joseph Edward Moore-Gwyn In 1922DD Gw/36/hub

Succession Duty On The Estate of Major Howel J. Moore-Gwyn, 1950DD Gw/37/hub

Correspondence With Outside CompaniesDD Gw/38/hub

Lease of Minerals Under Craig-Y-Perchil Farm, Cadoxton-Juxta-Neath ParishDD Gw/39/hub

Deed Relating To Furniture At Lonlâs HouseDD Gw/40/hub

Estate MapsDD Gw/41/hub

Plans of Houses, Farms And Estate Lands (Undated)DD Gw/42/hub

Plans of Houses, Farms And Estate Lands (Dated)DD Gw/43/hub

Miscellaneous Colliery Plans, 1870-1920DD Gw/44/hub

Plans of Farms And Larger Areas of Land, Mostly Undated, Originally Produced For ConveyancesDD Gw/45/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: AbercraveDD Gw/46/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: AlltwenDD Gw/47/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: BirchgroveDD Gw/48/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: BreconDD Gw/49/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: CilybebyllDD Gw/50/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: LlanddeusantDD Gw/51/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: LlangadogDD Gw/52/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: Llangyfelach ParishDD Gw/53/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: NeathDD Gw/54/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: PontarddulaisDD Gw/55/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: YstradgynlaisDD Gw/56/hub

Plans of Individual Properties: Plans of Individual Properties: Unidentified SitesDD Gw/57/hub

Railway PlansDD Gw/58/hub

Plans of Roads And Road ImprovementsDD Gw/59/hub

Water WorksDD Gw/60/hub

Plans of SchoolsDD Gw/61/hub

Tithe Maps And ApportionmentsDD Gw/62/hub

Plans of Housing Estates And Housing DevelopmentsDD Gw/63/hub

Fishing RightsDD Gw/64/hub

1st Edition O.S. Parish Reference Books, Giving The Area And Land-Use of Each Numbered Plot of Land On The 1st Edition 1:2500 Ordnance Survey MapDD Gw/65/hub

Ordnance Survey MapsDD Gw/66/hub

Maps and plansDD Gw/67/hub